Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Mrs. Oldbird, I'm truly sorry that the medication trial for your husband's Alzheimer's disease caused him to have diarrhea. That is, unfortunately, a known side effect of the drug. I'm glad he got better after we stopped it.

I really do take your word that it gave him the runs. You didn't need to bring in a pickle jar full of his week-old liquid shit to show me. And I really don't want to know what you did to collect it. And I don't need to keep it here to run tests on it. And, if you even THINK about loosening the lid, so help me I'm going to leap over my desk and throw you out the window.

wow. I'm glad I work in a lab and people don't bring weird "shit" in for us to look at...

question: so do you see people mostly in your office? (as in, the room that your desk is in, with a computer on it, a diet coke at hand, etc.) or do you usually see them in regular exam rooms and then just talk to them, if necessary, in the comfort(able seating) of your office after they've gotten dressed or climbed off the exam table?just curious. you often mention talking to patients in your office and then you mention desk, chair, window, etc. but never exam tables or stools with wheels.

(I'm just trying to complete my mental picture of "Dr. Grumpy in action in the House")

mmm... When I read this, only one real possiblity goes through my mind: this woman either knows squat about medicine, believes doctors (or maybe you in particular) are Gods/a God with all the answers, or both. Well, nice to see the "God Complex" is alive and kicking in some... even if it's not in the doctors but the patients.

Her action was so un-necessary! Having a hard time not upchucking here! Why don't you leave your job and work in a shop? You get the same endless aggravation for no pay! Or you could really herd yaks? Just a though!

Never ceases to amaze me...I'm an ER nurse, and I've been handed pretty much anything that can be expelled from the human body...let's see, stool samples, sputum samples, or worse. What gets me are the containers they come in! One guy brought a sample of his diarrhea in a Tupperware container! Not some cheap-arsed plastic container, mind you, actual brand-named Tupperware. That stuff's expensive! I sincerely hope he threw the thing away afterward.

I think that man came to my pharmacy. His alzheimer's med had been increased and he needed something for the diarrhea since he had changed his pants "already 3 times today". More than I ever needed to know. Sigh.

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